Urban Garden - Kensington Gardens
Creating a series of relaxing outdoor spaces to link with the interior by Joanna Wood was the brief for this client's project. We approached the frontage as a low-key formal entrance with screening to the front boundary using pleached Hornbeams (carpinus betulus ) with Taxus baccatta hedging underneath. The main theme throughout was over-scaled cream clay pots, planted with boxwood spheres, repeated in three or five in a row.
The rear garden was separated into two rooms, one being the seating area over the skylights of the swimming pool below, which lead you from the interior of the main drawing room, and the formal dinning area in the second outdoor space. The timber units within the garden our not only designed for division of the space, but also act to cover all the extraction and filter systems for the under-ground swimming pool and air-conditioning units. Planting consists of four standard mulberrys, pleached Hornbeams, together with rows of taxus baccata, buxus sempervirens and Astelia westland, with all beds being mulched in Cotswold chippings.
The rear garden was separated into two rooms, one being the seating area over the skylights of the swimming pool below, which lead you from the interior of the main drawing room, and the formal dinning area in the second outdoor space. The timber units within the garden our not only designed for division of the space, but also act to cover all the extraction and filter systems for the under-ground swimming pool and air-conditioning units. Planting consists of four standard mulberrys, pleached Hornbeams, together with rows of taxus baccata, buxus sempervirens and Astelia westland, with all beds being mulched in Cotswold chippings.
